Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist. The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986 was awarded to Soyinka "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence."

 About Wole

The winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, Wole Soyinka has been one of the leading political and cultural interventionists in Africa. His creative and critical works are an uncompromising diagnosis of the African condition.

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"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."

- Wole Soyinka


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